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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Jainiary  10th,  1865.—Re- 
icrred  to  the  Coinmfttee  ou  Naval  Aifairs  and  ordered  to  l)c  printed. 

[By  the  Cuau::  | 


^lESSAGE  FROM   THE   PRESIDENT. 

RICHMOND,  Ya.,  Jan.  1,  18G5. 

To  the  House  of  RcprcHtiitaticcs : 

111  response  to  your  rcsohition  of  tli.^  'J3d  ult.,  I  licrewith  transmit, 
lor  your  inlbrniation,  a  convniunication  from  tlie  Secretary  of  tlie  Navy, 
relative  t(»  -'a  flour  and  grist  mill  and  bakery,"  established  by  the 
Department,  at  Albany,  Georgia. 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


COMMUNICATION   rilOM  THE  SECRET  All  V  OF  THE  NAVY. 

CONKEUEKATE   SxATES    Ol'    AmEKICA,  ) 

Navij  Department.,  \ 

Richmond,  Dec.  21st,  1864.      ) 
The  President : 

Sir — In  reply  to  the  following  resolution  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives : 

^^  lieso/ved.  That  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  be  re- 
([uested  to  inform  this  House  under  and  by  what  authority  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Navy  has  contracted  with  Nelson  Tii't  and  others  for  the 
erection  of  a  tlouring  mill  in  the  city  of  Albany,  Georgia ;  the  termB 
of  the  contract,  if  any,  under  which  said  mill  has  been  erected  and 
put  in  operation;  also,  what  estate,  if  any,  the  Government  has  ac- 
•  [uired  in  the  land  on  which  said  mill  has  been  located,  the  extent  of 
the  same,  and  the  amount  contracted  to  be  paid  therefor" — I  have  the 
honor  to  state  tiiat  this  Department  has  not  contracted  with  Nelson 
Tift,  or  others,  for  the  erection  of  a  flouring  mill  in  the  city  of  Albany, 
Georgia. 

To  supply  the  Navy  at  Mobile,  Selina,  Savannah  and  Charleston, 
this  Department  has  i»iirchased  machinery  and  estaldished  a  lionr  and 
grist  mill  and  bakery  at  Albany,  which  is  in  operation  under  the 
charge  of  Nelson  Tift,  Assistant  Paymaster  in  the  Navy. 

The  land  occupied  by  the  mill  and  bakery  consists  of  one  lot,  one 
himdred  by  two  hundred  feet ;  one  lot,  two  hundred  by  two  hundred 
and  ten  feet;  one  lot,  one  hundred  by  two  hundred  feet. 

The  lease,  under  Avhich  this  property  is  held  for  the  Confederate 
States,  stipulates  that  no  rent  is  to  be  paid  for  it  during  the  Avar,  and 
that  after  the  war  the  properly  may  be  Iield,  at  the  pleasure  of  the 
Confederate  States,  at  a  reutto  be  fixed  by  thi«  Secretary  of  the  Navv, 
or  his  siuccessor  in  office. 

I  am,  respectfully,  your  ob't  servant, 

S.  R.  MALLORY,  ^"co'y  J^Tanj. 


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